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pizza-throwing expert finally finds recipe to mobile success

Justin Wadstein has gotten so good at what’s called “pizza acrobatics” that he’s done his dough dance on “The Pizza Show,” “The Steve Harvey Show” and “The Today Show,” while collecting 13 world championships for spinning.

He traded a stable job with Pizza My Heart to make pizza pies out of the back of a truck with a wood-fired oven he was just learning how to use.

In six months the mobile pizza startup barely made a few thousand bucks.

He started driving for Uber and Lyft, talking pizza. “Five hundred rides later, it ended up being so good to me,” he says. “I talked to city officials, winery owners and went through 1,000 business cards.”